Books
Pinboard 23 May: Brixton’s Cornercopia does cocktails, Jay Rayner riles Herne Hill and your chance to find out what’s Made in Camberwell
1. Brixton: pop-up cocktail bar at Cornercopia Oh goodness. How exciting. If their cocktails are as good as their food, the new seasonal pop-up cocktail …
Free Weekend? Be inspired to enjoy the great outdoors (and win a copy of this guidebook)
Pedlars’ Guide to the Great Outdoors (Square Peg, £16.99) is a beautifully illustrated and immensely practical hardback book. But we have to come clean: we’re biased, …
Wednesday Picture: how did London’s first ever A-Z come to be sold in this Clapham shop?
So many amazing people have lived, and amazing things happened in our city that aren’t commemorated by blue plaques or monumental architecture. And one south …
Pinboard: The Stone Roses come to south London, free food for a decade and arts under the arches
Shane Meadows does the Stone Roses – in Brixton (and Clapham and Greenwich) “It takes time for people to fall in love with ya,” says …
Heard the one about London Bridge being sold to an Arizonan oilman?
Travis Elborough on the unlikely story of the 1960s sale of SE1’s most famous monument
Pinboard: south London as art, film for free and sexy riverside housing
1. Meet Vic Lee, London artist You might not recognise Vic Lee’s face, but we’re pretty sure you’ll know his illustrations. Vic’s bold, graphic …